On January 1, 2017, the San Francisco Chronicle reported on how Oakland’s predominantly African-American churches are affected by the city’s changing demographics. “If your congregation is in Oakland, the neighborhood around it is probably changing,” Michelle Myles Chambers, a program assistant for the San Francisco Foundation’s Faiths program, said. “So it’s advantageous to go out […]

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Editor’s note: This guest post is by Laura Slattery, Executive Director of The Gubbio Project, which hosts an average of 95 unhoused neighbors seeking safety and rest on the pews in the sanctuary of St. Boniface church each weekday. There are critical junctures in the life of an organization, just as there are in the everyday […]